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A Year After George Floyd’s Death, Police Unions Are Still Exploiting Reform Efforts to Cash In
A new report from The Guardian finds that police reform efforts often come with strings attached purse strings, that is.
Monday, May 24, 2021
It’s been one year since the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. But while countless ink has been poured out writing about the tragedy and the demands for change it spurred, little of that ink has made its way to the official legal books.
If there’s one thing Americans agree on, it’s the need for police reform. A majority of Americans, 58 percent, say major changes are needed, while another 36 percent say minor changes are needed. In other words, only six percent of people believe things are fine in the world of policing.
May 24, 2021
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CarbonBuilt’s technology, developed by researchers at UCLA, is said to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete by more than 50 percent, by taking CO2 emissions directly from coal-fired power plants and other industrial facilities and infusing them into a new kind of concrete. “All those emissions that you may have put out, you essentially lock them back up in the production of limestone,” said Gaurav Sant, one of the UCLA researchers who devised the technology.